Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fair Share's tax coalition has been concentrating for the last few months on the Classification Amendment which is a referendum on the November ballot in Massachusetts. The amendment would change the State constitution's language on property assessment...
...jury of eight men and four women agreed. On the first ballot, it voted acquittal by reason of insanity. Even the prosecutor seemed relieved...
...person stands out as a potential leader-but then Nicaraguans have too long had their leaders foisted upon them. The only answer, many people now feel, is a genuinely free election -and not the usual ballot-stuffing kind in which votes are bought by handing out five córdobas (about 70?) and a bottle of guaro (cheap rum) to the poor and illiterate. Failing that, they fear that Matagalpa is likely to be remembered as only one in a chain of bloody rebellions...
Seated at a table in front of the Sistine Chapel altar, the Cardinal solemnly intoned the name written on each ballot. "Luciani . . . Luciani . . . Luciani . . ." Beside him sat two other Cardinal scrutatores (vote counters) who carefully plucked the ballots from a silver chalice, unfolded them and passed them to their colleague. It was the fourth and final ballot of the astonishing one-day conclave that gave the Catholic world its 263rd Pope: Albino Cardinal Luciani, 65, Patriarch of Venice...
...first ballot the votes were hopelessly dispersed among a broad scattering of realistic as well as throwaway names. By the second, taken right the lines began to grow clear. No non-Italian figured prominently on the tally sheet that each Cardinal marked as the names were called out. No Italian had anywhere near the necessary 75 votes (two-thirds of the conclave plus one). Nor did any have a discernible lead. But the main competition seemed to be between the principal Curial and pastoral candidates...